Street view

It's a while since I showed any general street views in Saltaire village. These are both taken in the upper part of the village, at the west end towards Albert Road. Most of these houses were built later in the village's construction, in the 1860s. The top one is Shirley Street, named after Sir Titus Salt's grandson, the son of William Henry. (Shirley was a man's name in those days, now more likely to be given to a woman.) The row of houses is typical of the workmen's cottages built for the mill's ordinary workforce: two bedrooms plus a living room and scullery. Small they may be, but for their time they were exceptionally good, with water, drainage, gas and a private (outside) lavatory in a small back yard. 

The bottom photo is looking east along Titus Street. The larger houses facing Albert Road (far right above and far left below) were among the grandest houses in the village, built for professionals and senior managers at the mill. When they were built, they would have had a clear outlook over fields and countryside, though since then a housing estate has been built on the land opposite. You may notice that these appear to have had their stone cleaned of the dirt and soot of centuries, though many of the smaller terraces are still blackened. 

The whole village, still a wonderful place to live, is a conservation area and World Heritage Site, because of the completeness and state of preservation of the Victorian industrial village and its mill.